King Lear
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- Created on: 01-03-18 17:32
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- King Lear
- Characters
- The sisters
- Goneril and Regan
- Evil, cruel, manipulative, disloyal, greedy, duplicitous
- Kill each other "If not I'll ne'er trust poison"
- They plot their father's downfall "let us hit together and in the heat"
- "Put on what weary negligence you please"
- "And in good time you gave it"
- The show their falseness in the love test "She names my very deed of love only she comes too short"
- Cordelia
- Acts as a foil for her sisters
- Good, honest, king, forgiving
- Absent for most of the play (links to the fool)
- "Love and be silent"
- easily forgives her father "no cause"
- Goneril and Regan
- the brothers
- Edmund
- cruel, manipulative, duplicitous, disloyal, greedy, charming
- Initially the audience is sympathetic "Let me have lands , if not by birth by wit
- We turn against him when he turns on his family "Look sir I bleed"
- He plays the sisters against each other " One both niether"
- Loses to Edgar in final battle, tries to redeem himself "the wheel has come full circle"
- Edgar
- Kind , loyal trustworthy, gullible
- Is betrayed by his brother, boring, outlawed
- Shows surprising bravery when he transforms into Poor Tom "Edgar I no longer am"
- Is incredibly loyal to his father as he forgives him easily and guides him when he is blinded
- Battles Edmund and wins in good vs evil battle "The goods are just"
- Edmund
- Lear
- Tragic hero
- begins as a harsh leader "Nothing will come of nothing"
- The fool acts as his conscience
- We feel bad for Lear when we see the sisters treatment of him
- He remains flawed as he descends into madness "I am a man more sinned against than sinning
- We see how he has changed when he reunites with gloucester
- Showing empathy to the fool was a turning point
- He is reunited with Cordelia and begs forgiveness. They die together
- Gloucester
- He seems crude when he discussed Edmund "He came saucily into this world"
- He then rashly disowns Edgar
- Edmund turns against him
- He is blinded
- Edgar leads him to his attempted suicide
- He dies in Edgar's arms having been forgiven
- Sub characters
- Kent
- The fool
- Loyal to Lear
- Acts as a conscience
- Is unafraid to mock Lear
- The sisters
- Themes
- Sight and blindness
- Gloucesters blinding "I stumbled when I saw"
- Lear references blindness
- Justice
- Godly justice "like wanton flies to schoolboys"
- Seeking revenge
- The sisters feel Lear has done wrong to them
- Edmund feels hard done by
- Edgar seeks revenge in the end
- Love
- Cordelia and Edgar are loyal and forgiving
- The love test "I love you according to my bond"
- The fathers misinterpret which child loves them
- Sight and blindness
- Dramatic technique
- Lear and Gloucester's stories mirror each other
- Betrayed by cruel children
- mistakenly banish loyal child
- suffer and eventually die as a result
- Disguises
- Poor Tom
- Kent
- Nature
- The storm mirrors Lears desent into maddness
- Animal imagery
- Lear and Gloucester's stories mirror each other
- Characters
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